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Learn How To Use Plugins

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GTG has the ability to add plugins to extend its core functionality.

Some examples of the currently available plugins are the notification icon which displays a handy shortcut to GTG in your notification space, or the closed tasks remover which automatically deletes old tasks from your closed tasks list.

You can find the Plugin Manager by selecting Edit in the Menu Bar, then clicking Plugins.

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Reporting Bugs

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GTG is still beta software. We like it and use it everyday but you will probably encounter some bugs will you do.

Please, help us improving GTG by reporting them on our Launchpad page:https://bugs.launchpad.net/gtg/+filebug

We need you to make this software better. Any contribution, any idea is welcome!

If you have some trouble with GTG, we might be able to help you or to solve your problem really quickly.

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Learn How To Use The Quick Add Entry

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The Quick Add Entry is the fastest way to create a new task. Use the check box in the View menu to enable and disable the entry field.

To add a task simply type its title in the entry and press Enter. The task will be created and selected in the task browser. If a tag is selected in the Tags Sidebar, it will be applied to the task you created.

You can also create a task in the Quick Add Entry and at the same time specify its tags, due and defer date. Follow these format rules:

tags:tag1,tag2,tag3

Using this you can apply as many tags as you wish using comma as separator. Note that any word in the title that begins with "@" will also be interpreted as a tag!

due:date
defer:date

Using this you can apply a due date or a defer date. Dates can be formated as per your locale or yyyy-mm-dd (for example 2012-04-01) or yyyymmdd (20120401) or mmdd (0401 - the year being implicitly the current one) or today, tomorrow or a weekday name (due:monday means due next Monday). Dates which are added in this way will not appear in the task title.

Examples:

buy stationary tags:purchases,office due:20120330 defer:tuesday

The above example tells GTG to create a new task with the title "buy stationary", under the tags "purchases" and "office", with the due date March 30, 2012 and the start date next Tuesday.

call mum tags:family,calls due:sunday defer:tomorrow

The above example tells GTG to create a new task with the title "call mum", under the tags "family" and "calls", with the due date next Sunday and the start date tomorrow.

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Learn How To Use Synchronization Services

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Synchronization Services allow GTG to synchronize (meaning to have access or to import) tasks, notes or bugs from other sites or services like Launchpad, Remember the Milk, Tomboy, etc.

This can incredibly useful if, for instance, you want to access your tasks on several instances of GTG running on separate computers, or if you want to edit your tasks using an online service. GTG can also import tasks from specific sites like launchpad for instance, which allows you to manage the bug reports you're working on in GTG!

To use Synchronization Services, use the Edit menu, and select "Synchronization Services". You will then have the possibility to select among several online or local services from/to where you can import or export your tasks.

If you want to know more about Synchronization Services, you can read more about them by in the dedicated documentation in GTG's help (use the Help menu or press F1 to get access to it).

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Learn How To Search For Tasks

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To help you to find specific tasks more easily, GTG allows you to search for tasks based on their content.

Searching for tasks is really easy: just type the words you are looking for in the Quick Add Entry, and select "Search" in the menu that will appear automatically.

GTG stores your searches in the sidebar, under the "Search" section. You can thus always go back to a previous search need it. Search results are updated automatically, so you always get all the tasks matching your search request.

GTG also saves all the search requests you have made until you explicitely delete them (which you can do by right-clicking on them and selecting "Delete"). That allows you to safely quit GTG without loosing your search requests. This can be very useful when you use the search features to identify specific tasks regularly!

GTG search feature is really powerful and accept many parameters that allows you to search for very specific tasks. For instance, using the search query "@errands !today", you can search for tasks with the @errands tag that must be done today. To learn more about those search query parameters, you can read the documentation available in GTG's help (press F1 or use the Help menu to get access to it).